But a sonic rainboom is magic

@K_A  
Agreed. ‘Twilight can do everything now’ is an extremely annoying theme recently, and the slap in the sonic rainboom’s face was unnecessary and pandering.
 
Hell, Twlight used unicorn magic of simple telekinesis to move the elements into their place. Rarity could of done that easily under circumstances where unicorn magic didn’t work. Hell, Twilight didn’t even use Alicorn magic then, so why was Twilight’s unicorn magic not effected?
 
Answer: Cause she’s more special then they are. - Hasbro

I will say that it did look more like a spell to make her launch more fancy, since it didn’t leave as much effect as the rainboom, so they did a good job of not focusing on it too much. I feel it’s a bit of a slap to the rainboom’s legacy and could have been more original. It also implies a sudden level up in flying that even Twilight had no time to master, adding a “Twilight can do everything now” effect they were clearly avoiding throughout the episode. Also, though speed-driven, the rainboom is essentially magic as practiced by a pegasus.
 
This is my only kvetch about the episode, though, and the reasoning does make it relatively minor.

@ClownDicks  
No kiddin’.
 
The second I saw that, I had visions in my head of even more drama…
 
Thank goodness it’s just magic.

Aw come on, you mean the magic star at the end? It didn’t feel or look like a sonic rainboom at all.  
She flew up and a star shape happened. There was no explosion and giant shockwave that blows stuff away and covers the entire sky for miles.

@PonyPon  
This.
 
After all the wonky characterization and mythology so far, you really shouldn’t expect the writers to be keeping anything straight.

@And Brother I Hurt People  
It’s probably a symbolic thing.  
Celestia’s doing the actual work and she does the spectacle there or something.
 
Or she’s just sitting in the spa again getting her mane done.  
Now that I think of it, it’s probably the latter.

@Fortune
 
So Cadance can move the sun?

That’s a relief, I guess.

@And Brother I Hurt People  
Cadance might be the one doing that whole “Fly up to the sun” thing up in the Crystal Empire.
 
And she was probably supposed to be the one who did it in Canterlot while Celestia went to Ponyville during the first episode.

Since there was no “sonic” involved, it should be called Twilight Sparkboom.

@PonyPon  
Sorry that was meant for the BP.

Sonic Starburst, dammit!

@And Brother I Hurt People  
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@Background Pony #5328  
She flew up and caused an explosion in the shape of her cutie mark. For a second I thought that she did something similar as the sonic rainbow which disappointed me, however I did like it how she timed it exactly during twilight.

@Grieffon  
I know, I saw it, but she mentioned Cadance for some reason.

@PonyPon
 
Then does the ceremony introduce new princesses once and then never again?

@PonyPon  
Instead of a rainbow ring, it’s a purple, sparkly six-pointed star.

@And Brother I Hurt People  
I don’t think she does.

I thought she never did the Sparkboom mentioned in the synopsis since nobody uploaded pics of it yet? Did she do it, and did it actually look like SR?

@PonyPon
 
Gotta get the new princess introduced somehow.
 
It begs the question about how Cadance ties into all of this, however.

People actually think that it was made by speed. She could hardly fly straight during the episode and you thought that was a sonic boom at the end?

:snort snort:  
Well, when Dash was using a Sonic Rainboom to destroy a barn and being asked to perform one as pretty much a fireworks show for the wedding, a bit of that significance had already been lost.

Snort snort

Okay.
 
Just a magic effect?
 
For the crowd?